Lower-cost space missions like NASA's ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science, but at a risk

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

It's the JWST's turn to look for an intermediate mass black hole

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...
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Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while launching more missions and increasing the total science return. If ESCAPADE ...
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This surprising discovery rewrites the Milky Way’s origin story

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...
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New cosmic lens measurements deepen the Hubble tension mystery

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...
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Is the 'Star of Bethlehem' really a planet? A bright visitor this month may hold a clue.

A brilliant point of light is rising in the eastern sky soon after dark this month, drawing comparisons to the "Star of ...